Barons and Castellans

The military nobility - "e;signori di castelli"e;, lords of castles - formed an important component of the society of Renaissance Italy, although they have often been disregarded by historians, or treated as an anomaly. In Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy, Christine Shaw provides the first comparative study of "e;lords of castles"e;, great and small, throughout Ita...